The first week of December is just about ending. It was a busy week for me! Besides the normal commitments I started to make a small progress in my card list. This morning I email 26 of my yearly newsletter to afew people I know. The others will be sent as snail mail as they don't either have internet or I don't know their email address. I am hoping to get the card list completed by the end of this weekend. And post all envelopes on Monday. There is a couple I have to send overseas which I hope they will reach their destination just before Christmas.
My 15 yo daughter finished year 10 over a week ago now. She mostly had her first week of school holidays at home. She still got her traineeship to deal with over the holidays. Just one more day of on the job training to go. She will have a six week break until school resumes in late January 2014. In mid-late January she suppose to attend to a couple of catch up modules days as she had abit of time off due to school excursions or exams on that day of her theory classes. On Tuesday she a day at the centre to complete her first aide module. She past the exam successful!
All state schools in QLD from prep to year 9 will have their last week of the school year next week. Then all kids will be on school holidays for 6-8 weeks over summer. What do you plan with your school age kids this summer?
Finally our good news came at last! We were informed yesterday the first stage of the contract was successful. The sold sticker was added to the sign yesterday! Our settlement day will be in mid January, due to the festive season of solictor closing for 2 weeks over Christmas and New Year.
Last night I found 7 of my cousins now on facebook. I had a conversation with two of them. Basically I informed them about the updates of my life. They were quite surprised and I am sure many others will be in the same vote once they read my yearly newsletter.
Better get back to this card list otherwise it will never be done. Sometimes I wish I had Rosie (remember the robot from THE JETSONS) here to do some things for me! For one, she would be a better housekeeper then my kids are. And secondly there are never enough hours in the day to do everything by myself.
Have a good weekend everyone!
Saturday, 7 December 2013
Friday, 6 December 2013
My card list prep
This weekend I am hoping to sit down and get all my card writing done as Christmas is only 19 days away. And I am working on getting my yearly newsletter done and sent with some greeting messages via snail mail. Some newsletters will be emailed as well.
2013 News – Good and Bad
Rachel started high school - year 8 Monique was in year 10, Academic Awards - Top Student in Art
Marriage ended after 19 yrs, house sold, settlement day is January 2014
May – CM went backrupt, scrap days stop
August – Gall Bladder removed
Purchased a new car – hatchback 2012 Toyota Corolla Ascent Sports
Monique started her school based traineeship in sports and recreation.
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| Monique's 300 plague |
Sunday night bowling
Team 1st for High Game with HCP
Myself 1st for High game scratch
Mother’s Day Tournament we came 1st!! I won animal slippers and a box of chocolates
On 1/10 – Monique bowled a 300 game
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Good luck with your dreams in 2014!
Monday, 2 December 2013
Summer starting
Goodbye spring! Welcome summer! Generally this is my favourite time of the year as it is good weather to be in the water and we have more hours of daylight to do outdoor things. We had hot days already and some areas of the SE had severe or dangerous storms with large hailstones hit. I managed to capture my first lightning photo in a recent storm. A good thing about digital, you can delete the phones you don't want. It taken me over a 100 photos to capture a good lightning. And I learnt of how to do it right too!
How was your month of November? At present time we have our house on contract for the third time. I have heard the current buyer has finance approval but we still don't know until the building and pest inspection gets done the third time tomorrow. By this Friday we should know if this contract becomes unconditional or not. At present time I am not going to get my hopes up high as I had experience two invalid contracts before.
On 13th November (which would of been my late Grandma's birthday if she was still alive) I visited members from the old stamp club I used to attend regularly years ago. I had a good conversation with one member for about two hours, catching up with what's been happening in our life for the past 18 months. She invited me to attend to their break up party next week. If all goes well I might consider going since I don't have any other parties to attend to this year.
On the same day we attend to Monique's school for their academic awards night. She was rewarded with a certificate and a medal for being the top student in Art.
Sadly my last peachface had died on 22nd November. It was quite a shock to see a dead bird in the cage before sunset. I have posted my expression about the lost in a previous blog so I'm not going to repeat the same message this time. Since then I have two friends who had a relative passing away in November too.
On 26th November Rachel had her first school excursion to Lone Pine Sanctuary which is situated in Brisbane. The excursion was for a handful of SEU students to celebrate their first year of high school. Going by her reports she seems to had a great day there as she never has visited this sanctuary before. She asked me if we could go back there on the school holidays.
My bowling league has now finished for the year. We had our break up party on Saturday night. For further details you will have to read my sporting report blog.
Now it's already December and only 23 days until Christmas! So has everyone been organised on getting their decorations up and so on. Unfortunately no decorations will be up here because the tree got thrown out and most of the Christmas stuff is already packed in boxes and at my parent's house. To be honest I don't have the Christmas spirit in me as too much has happened this year. But I have been busy getting my card list done so my family and friends don't miss out of me thinking of them. I won't give the details on what I done but I all I will say it will be not what you will expect to receive.
Better go as it's time to cook dinner. Going to have a steak meal tonight. Enjoy the month of December!
How was your month of November? At present time we have our house on contract for the third time. I have heard the current buyer has finance approval but we still don't know until the building and pest inspection gets done the third time tomorrow. By this Friday we should know if this contract becomes unconditional or not. At present time I am not going to get my hopes up high as I had experience two invalid contracts before.
On 13th November (which would of been my late Grandma's birthday if she was still alive) I visited members from the old stamp club I used to attend regularly years ago. I had a good conversation with one member for about two hours, catching up with what's been happening in our life for the past 18 months. She invited me to attend to their break up party next week. If all goes well I might consider going since I don't have any other parties to attend to this year.
On the same day we attend to Monique's school for their academic awards night. She was rewarded with a certificate and a medal for being the top student in Art.
Sadly my last peachface had died on 22nd November. It was quite a shock to see a dead bird in the cage before sunset. I have posted my expression about the lost in a previous blog so I'm not going to repeat the same message this time. Since then I have two friends who had a relative passing away in November too.
On 26th November Rachel had her first school excursion to Lone Pine Sanctuary which is situated in Brisbane. The excursion was for a handful of SEU students to celebrate their first year of high school. Going by her reports she seems to had a great day there as she never has visited this sanctuary before. She asked me if we could go back there on the school holidays.
My bowling league has now finished for the year. We had our break up party on Saturday night. For further details you will have to read my sporting report blog.
Now it's already December and only 23 days until Christmas! So has everyone been organised on getting their decorations up and so on. Unfortunately no decorations will be up here because the tree got thrown out and most of the Christmas stuff is already packed in boxes and at my parent's house. To be honest I don't have the Christmas spirit in me as too much has happened this year. But I have been busy getting my card list done so my family and friends don't miss out of me thinking of them. I won't give the details on what I done but I all I will say it will be not what you will expect to receive.
Better go as it's time to cook dinner. Going to have a steak meal tonight. Enjoy the month of December!
Monday, 25 November 2013
Life changing for the better
Only one month until Christmas Day!! At this stage I do not know what will be happening as my life will have a changeover in the near future.
May as well say it now as you will all will find out sooner or later. My marriage after 19 years will come to an end. It will be for the best in the long run as things wasn't met to be. As we grow older we wanted differeent things in life and it was time to move forward. Should of done this about 7 years ago but I had kids to think about so that was the reason I tried to stay married as long as I could.
This is the reason why the house is on the market to try and sell as quickly as possible before the divorce case starts. We have afew debts to pay off so selling the house was the only option to get the money to do this. At least I will have my new car (which is now ten months old) that is reliable to get about by myself or my daughter.
It's sure been a stressful time trying to sell a house when the house market isn't quite reliable at present time. Also it doesn't help when I have a 15yo with an attitude problem. Once I moved out, her father can deal with her crappy attitude as he is the one with the full time custody of her. I will be moving back to stay with my parents for a short while with my 13yo. Don't really like the idea of moving back home after 20 years but it was only option to have a roof over my head. Only plan to be there until at least I get back on my feet financially. But more likely when Rachel finishes her schooling I probably move out. Then again I might ended up being a full time carer for my parents as they are getting older in age.
My 13yo will be changing schools in 2014 as it is just abit too far to travel five days a week to another city for just school drop off and picks up. I was hoping in year 2014 to start studying to gain my qualifications I have been wanting for so long. I will start off as a certificate level at college and then take it from there after first completion of course one.
So what goals do you have planned for 2014??
May as well say it now as you will all will find out sooner or later. My marriage after 19 years will come to an end. It will be for the best in the long run as things wasn't met to be. As we grow older we wanted differeent things in life and it was time to move forward. Should of done this about 7 years ago but I had kids to think about so that was the reason I tried to stay married as long as I could.
This is the reason why the house is on the market to try and sell as quickly as possible before the divorce case starts. We have afew debts to pay off so selling the house was the only option to get the money to do this. At least I will have my new car (which is now ten months old) that is reliable to get about by myself or my daughter.
It's sure been a stressful time trying to sell a house when the house market isn't quite reliable at present time. Also it doesn't help when I have a 15yo with an attitude problem. Once I moved out, her father can deal with her crappy attitude as he is the one with the full time custody of her. I will be moving back to stay with my parents for a short while with my 13yo. Don't really like the idea of moving back home after 20 years but it was only option to have a roof over my head. Only plan to be there until at least I get back on my feet financially. But more likely when Rachel finishes her schooling I probably move out. Then again I might ended up being a full time carer for my parents as they are getting older in age.
My 13yo will be changing schools in 2014 as it is just abit too far to travel five days a week to another city for just school drop off and picks up. I was hoping in year 2014 to start studying to gain my qualifications I have been wanting for so long. I will start off as a certificate level at college and then take it from there after first completion of course one.
So what goals do you have planned for 2014??
Saturday, 23 November 2013
Mixed emotions
Is it amazing how your emotions can change in 2-3 days? One moment you can be happy as Larry and the next a bombshell of news hits. I had mixed emotions for the past three days as a couple of events have happened since Wednesday afternoon.
After the late afternoon email on Wednesday about buyer's number 2 contract has became invalid, it was less then 24 hours I had a phone call from the real estate agent to say she found another protential buyer. A family of 5 (but heard later the couple has 9 children) came over after school to inspect the property. We signed the contract just before 5pm that afternoon. I was quite happy but deep down I am thinking will this be another let down after two weeks? Everyone keeps on saying third time lucky! But will it be the case for us?? I am trying my best not to think about this until Christmas. The settlement day won't be until mid January as the solicitors will be closed during the festive season for 2-3 weeks.
I had plans to spend two days away from this house. I just felt I needed abit of a break but when I woke up yesterday morning I felt really tired, run down and my tummy was unsettled. After doing some light housework I decided to have abit of a mid-day nap. I was only thinking it would be about only an hour's snooze but my body told me a different story. It was close to four hours by the time I got out of bed and stayed awake until late last night.
But the worse news of all came.........I walked out to the back verandah to check on my birds at around 5pm as it was close time of the day to bring them inside for the night. I was in total shock to see a dead peachface in his cage. It really broke my heart!! He was the last of our peachface we owned! He was a funny bird to watch with his clowning around acts. He knew how to communicate to the wildlife birds as well.
It was more heartbreaking to watch the other two (royal blue masked lovebirds) looking at their friend, just lying there without any sound. When I brought their cage inside, they were trying to communicate to the other bird for some form of response in return. I don't know if they understood that their friend had passed away.
Today they seen to be back to normal themselves and eating very well. I can hear them happily chirping away on the back verandah.
Last night I was home alone as the other household members were out at the movies until late. I decided to phone a friend who lives in Gladstone. We had a good chat for 2.5 hours about alot of different things happening in our life. We originally started as penpals as we have very common interests in cats and crafts. Even joined the same craft groups and swapped our papercraft made products. But once the internet was installed it was more emails sending then writing with a pen onto paper. We both are still members to one craft group today where we swap ATC jams.
As for the rest of this weekend I will just take it as comes. Have a good weekend everyone!
PS I have another crafty friend who just started her mini business. She decorately paints wooden things like pegs and pencils. If you are looking for Christmas presents she will be at Creative Markets tomorrow. This event is held at Springwood State School on Springwood Road, Springwood.
After the late afternoon email on Wednesday about buyer's number 2 contract has became invalid, it was less then 24 hours I had a phone call from the real estate agent to say she found another protential buyer. A family of 5 (but heard later the couple has 9 children) came over after school to inspect the property. We signed the contract just before 5pm that afternoon. I was quite happy but deep down I am thinking will this be another let down after two weeks? Everyone keeps on saying third time lucky! But will it be the case for us?? I am trying my best not to think about this until Christmas. The settlement day won't be until mid January as the solicitors will be closed during the festive season for 2-3 weeks.
I had plans to spend two days away from this house. I just felt I needed abit of a break but when I woke up yesterday morning I felt really tired, run down and my tummy was unsettled. After doing some light housework I decided to have abit of a mid-day nap. I was only thinking it would be about only an hour's snooze but my body told me a different story. It was close to four hours by the time I got out of bed and stayed awake until late last night.
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| RIP PEACHES |
It was more heartbreaking to watch the other two (royal blue masked lovebirds) looking at their friend, just lying there without any sound. When I brought their cage inside, they were trying to communicate to the other bird for some form of response in return. I don't know if they understood that their friend had passed away.
Today they seen to be back to normal themselves and eating very well. I can hear them happily chirping away on the back verandah.
Last night I was home alone as the other household members were out at the movies until late. I decided to phone a friend who lives in Gladstone. We had a good chat for 2.5 hours about alot of different things happening in our life. We originally started as penpals as we have very common interests in cats and crafts. Even joined the same craft groups and swapped our papercraft made products. But once the internet was installed it was more emails sending then writing with a pen onto paper. We both are still members to one craft group today where we swap ATC jams.
As for the rest of this weekend I will just take it as comes. Have a good weekend everyone!
PS I have another crafty friend who just started her mini business. She decorately paints wooden things like pegs and pencils. If you are looking for Christmas presents she will be at Creative Markets tomorrow. This event is held at Springwood State School on Springwood Road, Springwood.
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Summer storms started
Twenty days into November have just about passed us. As usual I have been busy since my last report written on this blog last week. We had good and bad news!
Monique's reward night happened on last Wednesday night. We just made it back home in time before the storm hit our area. It was only a local one!! She got a certificate and a medal for being the top student of all year 10 students who studied ART. That child has already had a passion for art since she could able to hold a pencil at her early childhood age. She loves to draw!! Their school principal knows how to communicate. I haven't heard someone talks so much about his job he loves!! I only briefly spoken to him once or twice at functions but it was the first time I heard more information about himself. He does remind me abit of the primary school principal which both seem to share the same role about the importance of education of all students. I know how important education is but telling it to teenagers is another matter!
Only this week I read an article about how do we know if our children are ready to start school. I have been there and done that with both girls. Back then one of them was ready to learn in year one while the other should of had another year at preschool. Now both are in high school and I do hope they will graduate year 12. There is alot of children in Logan who are school drop outs after year 10. Actually there is one child I heard has drop out after year 8. I don't know how the child's mother can get away with that one. By law children should be at school until at least year 10. Even then they have to have a job to go to or attend college.
Today was the day to find out if our house sale contract became unconditional. Sadly the buyer who wanted to buy this property had an unsuccessful application to their home loan. Like I said in my previous blog I suspect he might of had loan borrowing hassles if they needed an extra week for approval. I am quite disappointed it's now the second time in two months to have a contract invalid. I hope to had the house sold and be able to start fresh with my life. Now I feel no one wants our property!! Seriously I don't think this property will be sold before Christmas now. On top of that the banks are now getting tougher for applicants to apply for home loans. I think it's just a bad time of the year to sell a property anywhere here. We should of sold it about 5 years ago when we had the opportunity to. I think the house market was alot better back then too.
Summer isn't officially here yet and we already had severe storms hit SE QLD. Most of last week and on Monday there were reports of dangerous cells hit the inland and coastal areas of the state. On Monday we had a show of hail falling for about 15-20 mins. It started to look like snow was falling by the time the hail stopped.
Just realised it is now getting late. I already missed three quarters of a TV show I planned on watching tonight. Guess I will watch it online now. Have a good remainder of the week!
Monique's reward night happened on last Wednesday night. We just made it back home in time before the storm hit our area. It was only a local one!! She got a certificate and a medal for being the top student of all year 10 students who studied ART. That child has already had a passion for art since she could able to hold a pencil at her early childhood age. She loves to draw!! Their school principal knows how to communicate. I haven't heard someone talks so much about his job he loves!! I only briefly spoken to him once or twice at functions but it was the first time I heard more information about himself. He does remind me abit of the primary school principal which both seem to share the same role about the importance of education of all students. I know how important education is but telling it to teenagers is another matter!
Only this week I read an article about how do we know if our children are ready to start school. I have been there and done that with both girls. Back then one of them was ready to learn in year one while the other should of had another year at preschool. Now both are in high school and I do hope they will graduate year 12. There is alot of children in Logan who are school drop outs after year 10. Actually there is one child I heard has drop out after year 8. I don't know how the child's mother can get away with that one. By law children should be at school until at least year 10. Even then they have to have a job to go to or attend college.
Today was the day to find out if our house sale contract became unconditional. Sadly the buyer who wanted to buy this property had an unsuccessful application to their home loan. Like I said in my previous blog I suspect he might of had loan borrowing hassles if they needed an extra week for approval. I am quite disappointed it's now the second time in two months to have a contract invalid. I hope to had the house sold and be able to start fresh with my life. Now I feel no one wants our property!! Seriously I don't think this property will be sold before Christmas now. On top of that the banks are now getting tougher for applicants to apply for home loans. I think it's just a bad time of the year to sell a property anywhere here. We should of sold it about 5 years ago when we had the opportunity to. I think the house market was alot better back then too.
Summer isn't officially here yet and we already had severe storms hit SE QLD. Most of last week and on Monday there were reports of dangerous cells hit the inland and coastal areas of the state. On Monday we had a show of hail falling for about 15-20 mins. It started to look like snow was falling by the time the hail stopped.
Just realised it is now getting late. I already missed three quarters of a TV show I planned on watching tonight. Guess I will watch it online now. Have a good remainder of the week!
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Last eleven Days
Eleven days into November has passed on by very quickly. And boy! Haven't I been busy and afew things have happened. Besides watching my reality shows, crochet and doing my normal commitments, I started to make Christmas tags (instead of greeting cards this year). Most of the project is digital. Also I made fridge magnets for league bowlers as part of my little Christmas gift at the break up party later on this month.
The main reason I didn't post last week because I was waiting for the email about the sale contract to see if it has gone unconditional as yet. The sale of this property is still on contract. We got an email from the coveyancing officer yesterday stating our buyer wants to have a week's extension to get finance approval and settlement. I starting to think this buyer might have troubles of getting the finance of a home loan. On a good note, at least our building inspection was more satisfactory this time.
I enjoyed my "ME TIME" last weekend as I was home alone most of the time. Rachel went away with her father for two nights while Monique had a sleepover elsewhere. I had two sleep ins for once! Who knows when that will happen again as afew changes will be taking place in the near future.
It seems we had a good storm on Sunday afternoon. I wasn't home at the time but I did hear we might of had golf sized hail hit in our street. There are afew dents on the plastic roof of the under covered area. Going by the dent it looks more like a ping pong ball but it might of sound like golf balls hitting the roof. It didn't seem to do any other damage but our garage was flooded out again. At least there was no moving packaging on the ground this time.
We had some good news about my children's education. We received two letters and one postcard in the mail about their excellent achievements. Rachel got a postcard from one teacher to say she excel very well in two subjects ( B+ for SOSE and A for English). I take it was an assessment piece the students worked on recently. She got a letter saying she got 100 Gotchas for good behaviour at school. She will be rewarded with a prize soon. Monique got a letter asking us to attend to the Academic Award Night tomorrow as she will be receiving an award for excellence in one subject.
After a month, Monique finally happy to see her bowling plague in her hand. She bowled the perfect game on 1st October.
Better go as I have afew things to do today. Have a nice day! :)
The main reason I didn't post last week because I was waiting for the email about the sale contract to see if it has gone unconditional as yet. The sale of this property is still on contract. We got an email from the coveyancing officer yesterday stating our buyer wants to have a week's extension to get finance approval and settlement. I starting to think this buyer might have troubles of getting the finance of a home loan. On a good note, at least our building inspection was more satisfactory this time.
I enjoyed my "ME TIME" last weekend as I was home alone most of the time. Rachel went away with her father for two nights while Monique had a sleepover elsewhere. I had two sleep ins for once! Who knows when that will happen again as afew changes will be taking place in the near future.
It seems we had a good storm on Sunday afternoon. I wasn't home at the time but I did hear we might of had golf sized hail hit in our street. There are afew dents on the plastic roof of the under covered area. Going by the dent it looks more like a ping pong ball but it might of sound like golf balls hitting the roof. It didn't seem to do any other damage but our garage was flooded out again. At least there was no moving packaging on the ground this time.
We had some good news about my children's education. We received two letters and one postcard in the mail about their excellent achievements. Rachel got a postcard from one teacher to say she excel very well in two subjects ( B+ for SOSE and A for English). I take it was an assessment piece the students worked on recently. She got a letter saying she got 100 Gotchas for good behaviour at school. She will be rewarded with a prize soon. Monique got a letter asking us to attend to the Academic Award Night tomorrow as she will be receiving an award for excellence in one subject.
After a month, Monique finally happy to see her bowling plague in her hand. She bowled the perfect game on 1st October.
Better go as I have afew things to do today. Have a nice day! :)
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